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Ernesto Encinia is this year’s winner of the Cocopah Rio Colorado Father’s Day Scholarship. Encinia is a Cocopah Tribal member who is on his way to the Haskell Indian Nations University where he plans to study forensic science. He was presented with a $500 check on Friday afternoon at the West Reservation. Pictured left to right: Cocopah Rio Colorado Golf Course General Manager Tim Holyk, Ernesto Encinia, and Cocopah Vice-Chairman J. Deal Begay Jr.